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Lee, <em>Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery</em> (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 11–13, no. 15, ill.</span>","classified_as":[{"id":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300311705","type":"Type","_label":"Citations"}]},{"type":"LinguisticObject","content":"<span class=\"lux_data\">Mengjia Chen, <em>A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections</em>, 1-2 (Tokyo: Kyu¯ko Shoin, 1977), 127, 964–65, ill.</span>","classified_as":[{"id":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300311705","type":"Type","_label":"Citations"}]},{"type":"LinguisticObject","content":"<span class=\"lux_data\"><a href=\"https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/publication/pdfs/ag-doc-2299-0001-doc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Mimi Gardner Gates, <em>The Communion of Scholars: Chinese Art at Yale</em>, exh. cat. 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Matheson, <em>Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery</em> (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 80, 82, fig. 72</span>","classified_as":[{"id":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300311705","type":"Type","_label":"Citations"}]},{"type":"LinguisticObject","content":"<span class=\"lux_data\"><a href=\"https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/publication/pdfs/ag-doc-2299-0001-doc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">David Ake Sensabaugh, <em>The Scholar as Collector: Chinese Art at Yale</em>, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2004), 12–13, 42, no. 4, fig. 3</a></span>","classified_as":[{"id":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300311705","type":"Type","_label":"Citations"}]},{"type":"LinguisticObject","content":"Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. 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Combining it with the cicada, a natural symbol of death and transformation, may have increased it potency.</span>","classified_as":[{"id":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435416","type":"Type","_label":"Description"}]},{"type":"LinguisticObject","content":"8 1/8 × 3 7/8 in. (20.7 × 9.8 cm)\r\n8 1/8 × 3 3/4 × 3 7/8 in. (20.64 × 9.53 × 9.84 cm)","classified_as":[{"id":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435430","type":"Type","_label":"Dimensions"}]},{"type":"LinguisticObject","content":"Bronze","classified_as":[{"id":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435429","type":"Type","_label":"Medium"}]},{"type":"LinguisticObject","content":"Shang dynasty (1600–1046 B.C.E.), Anyang phase (ca. 1300–1046 B.C.E.)","classified_as":[{"id":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300081446","type":"Type","_label":"Period"}]},{"type":"LinguisticObject","content":"Joanny Benoît Peytel (1844–1924),  Paris [see note 1]; acquired by C. T. 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